Class: XI
Country: Honduras
Hello! There is exciting news from the eleventh Class of Periclean Scholars. This Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, two scholars and our class Mentor will be traveling to Honduras through one of our local partners, Hope for Honduran Children. H4HC is a non-profit that works to create opportunities for the youth in Flor Azul and four other communities. They work to get boys sponsors and scholarships to create better futures for themselves. More information can be found on H4HC’s website. Meredith Berk, Christian Gilbert, and professor April Post have been making the last few preparations for the trip over the past two weeks.
They arrive in TGU, Tegucigalpa, at 12:30 PM the same day, and will travel to H4HC’s compound immediately. They will spend the following week interacting with locals in the villages supported by H4HC and will get to interact with community leaders, H4HC leaders, and many others. They will be capturing video footage, recording important dialogues and taking photographs of the local environment and facilities. We hope that by using this information we can start to see in which ways we can benefit and interact with these communities and partners.
The three will produce a short summary video about their trip upon their return. We will take the pictures and interviews and create profiles for the communities they met, as a way to organize the information.
Finally, we are still actively fundraising to pay for this trip. If you want to help, you can visit www.gofundme.com/periclean. We would be greatly appreciative of any financial assistance.
Stay tuned, there will be more to follow when they return.
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